what is good design? “design is not just what it looks like and feels like. design is how it...

What is Good Design?

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Steve Jobs

What is Good Design?

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose”

Charles Eames

What is Good Design?

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann

What is Good Design?

“If a site is perfectly usable but it lacks an elegant and appropriate design style, it will fail.”

Curt Cloninger

What is Good Design?

“Taking the Ordinary and Making it Extraordinary”Debbie Travis

What is Good Design?

1. What it Does

it can't be well designed if it doesn't do something useful

What is Good Design?

2. How it Looks

function is seldom enough, it has to look good too!

What is Good Design?

3. What’s New?

realizing the potential of new

things

What is Good Design?

4. How it Works

so easy to work you don’t need an instruction manual

What is Good Design?

5. Guilt

How can we consider something to be well

designed unless we feel confident about the way it was designed and made, and will be eventually be

disposed of?

Watch Out!!!!!!

In design there is often the failure to separate innovation from renovation

DISCUSSION

You were asked to bring a small item that you like.Why do you like it?How about that remote control? Do you like it? Why or Why not?What is your favorite magazine?

ASSIGNMENT

Take a magazine that you have not seen and probably never pick up to read.Look through that magazine and find a concept that you could apply to your website. Saying I don’t like it and can’t find a concept is not an option.

9 ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD WEB DESIGN

How does your site stack up?

Resources• http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/arts/design9.

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• http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html• http://id.bobulate.com/readings/gooddesign.pdf • http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/9-e• http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/

index.htmlssential-principles-for-good-web-design/ • http://www.digital-web.com/articles/

principles_and_elements_of_design/• http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/index.html